Imaging HP Streams/UEFI

[Divaldo]

We have been given the 'luxury' of 20 new HP Stream 13's in our library.

 

Does anyone have any experience of the best way of imaging them? I have a Windows 10 image built on one of them, but they have no network adapters other than the built in wifi.

 

I have a USB stick to boot into WinPE, and I've used DISM to capture a WIM image of the OS partition to an external USB hard drive. When I roll this out to other Streams though, they don't boot, they just go into the HP recovery tool. I haven't deleted any of the other partitions on them, I've just replaced the factory installation of Windows with my own.

 

What am I missing? Do I need to capture ALL of the partitions of my reference machine, not just the one with the Windows installation on? Or is there a much better way of tackling this? This is the first time I've tackled something using UEFI.

 

I'm not too bothered about WDS or anything over the network as it's only 20 machines, USB is fine.

[mike_ash]

I've just imaged a few of these, the only program I could find that worked was the 64-bit version of clonezilla, we would usually use wds or acronis but the lack of an ethernet port scuppered wds and acronis told me it didn't support the disk type

 

Mike

[Divaldo]

Clonezilla did the trick here too, thanks Mike. Very much appreciated.

[ndog37]

Or you could connect a USB-LAN adaptor, use a pen drive to load winPE which has a startup script to connect to the WDS server. Thats how we do in my school.